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Past Beirut Event: VOL 26

VOL 26

October 12, 2016

@
Beirut Digital District

Join us in welcoming the breezy autumn evenings on Beirut Digital District's rooftop! Come listen to a diverse range of speakers telling us about their projects, ideas, processes and challenges during Volume 26 of Beirut PechaKucha Nights.

PRESENTATIONS FROM THIS EVENT

A clinical psychologist, art therapist, lecturer and artist, Anita Toutikian is the founder of Beirut Art Therapy. In her talk, she walks us through the different modalities by which emotion can be channeled. From visual arts to performance, we discover the various ways in which psychological layers can unfold and be explored.

Seeing the evolution of Beirut in past years – its increasing privatization, segregation and inequalities – Abir Saksouk and Nadine Bekdache founded Public Works Studio in 2012. In this presentation, Abir talks about the different projects Public Works is involved in to shape the public discourse around spatial justice and the right to the city.

Raymonda Chamoun is a visual artist and art teacher. Through her teaching, she discovered that every child is an artist. Inspired by this hidden talent that usually ends up pinned to the fridge at home, she came up with the idea she presents in this talk: turning children's art into a motif for children-oriented objects.

Founder of Urban Sketchers Lebanon, Judy J. Abi Roustom is an Architect and sketch addict. Through the collective act of sketching, USK members regularly meet to reclaim spaces around the city and the country, and to show them in a different light. Through her activities, Judy aims to make art more accessible, for a community of passionate, like-minded individuals.

Facing the current state of media and journalism in Lebanon, Kareem Chehayeb and Sarah Shmaitilly founded Beirut Syndrome, an alternative and grassroots journalism platform. Their project is based on the importance of informing the public, tackling uneasy questions, creating conversations and building communities.

In The Creative Process in 6 Simple Steps from PechaKucha Night Beirut Vol. 26, Nader Tabri breaks down the creative process into 6 simple steps. Buckle up for "How to illustrate an illustration, an illustrative guide (complete with illustratory illustrations) by a not-so-illustrious illustrator who sucks at giving titles to things or how I learned to stop worrying and love fig jam."

Ayman Hassan, co-founder of Studio zumra and Rachel Dedman, curator in Beirut, will unveil the story of ‘Halcyon’, an exhibition part of the Transart Triennale 2016. Halcyon is driven solely by video and text-based work and its design is born of the collaboration between Studio Zumra and Rachel. The project experiments with the installation of long-form writing in exhibition, creating a space in which an audience might spend extended time watching, reading and listening.

Lama Yazbeck, the Executive Director of Himaya, shares the Safe Parks project: mobile playgrounds in which children across Lebanon can experience diversity and carefree moments in protected environments. The one-of-a-kind project was launched by himaya, a Lebanese NGO established in 2009 in the child protection sector.

In What's in a Brane? at PechaKucha Night Beirut Vol. 26, Ayssar Arida and Sabine de Maussion introduce their latest project: Makerbrane, a physical and digital toolbox that lets anyone design, build, and sell their own line of cool toys. This educational toy allows anyone to mix their own LEGOs, littleBits electronics, Meccano, 3D prints and anything they can imagine into designs, objects and systems of their creation.